Haiku Alpha 3 has been in development for more than 14 months. In that time more than 800 bugs have been identified and fixed, major sections have been updated, applications have been added and updated, and great progress has been made in supporting additional hardware. Here is a summary of updates, more details can be found here. Also inside, interviews with some core Haiku developers.

Thanks (@atriq too). It feels ironic, being a software engineer, to have bugtrackers explained to me :-)

The thing that seemed odd to me is the active voice on "close" with "bugs" as the subject. Instead of "bugs closed as fixed" I would have expected "bugs are closed as fixed". But after a couple of rereadings, it made sense.